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    The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

    The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

    Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.

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    Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

    Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

    Finding a story's emotional truth.

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    Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

    Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

    "[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

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    There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

    There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

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    Chris Offutt on Outlaws, Scofflaws, and Kentucky Noir

    Chris Offutt on Outlaws, Scofflaws, and Kentucky Noir

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    The Age of Discontentment: Tess Gerritsen on Senior Crime Solvers and Subverting Expectations

    The Age of Discontentment: Tess Gerritsen on Senior Crime Solvers and Subverting Expectations

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    Connie Briscoe Talks Setting, Suspense, and Moral Ambiguity with Karin Slaughter

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